Barbara Cooper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University

Professor Cooper is interested in the intersections between culture and political economy, focusing upon gender, religion, and family life. Her study of a minority Evangelical Protestant community in majority Muslim Niger, Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel, will appear with Indiana University press in 2006. She has recently begun a new project exploring the implications of discourses and debates around reproduction in the former French colonies of West Africa, "Birth, Death and Reproduction in the AOF."